Lew, Oxfordshire Explained
| Official Name: | Lew |
| Static Image Name: | Lew, Oxfordshire Trinity Church.JPG |
| Static Image Caption: | Holy Trinity parish church |
| Population: | 65 |
| Population Ref: | (2001 Census) |
| Os Grid Reference: | SP3206 |
| Civil Parish: | Lew |
| Shire District: | West Oxfordshire |
| Shire County: | Oxfordshire |
| Region: | South East England |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 51.756°N -1.531°W |
| Post Town: | Witney |
| Postcode Area: | OX |
| Postcode District: | OX18 |
| Dial Code: | 01993 |
| Constituency Westminster: | Witney |
Lew is a village and civil parish about NaNmiles southwest of Witney in the West Oxfordshire District of Oxfordshire, England. The 2001 Census recorded the parish population as 65.[1] Since 2012 the parish has been part of the Curbridge and Lew joint parish council area, sharing a parish council with the adjacent civil parish of Curbridge.
History
Evidence of early human habitation in the parish includes a tumulus, probably Anglo-Saxon, on a high hill west of the village.[2] The village's place-name, recorded as Hlæwe in 984, means "tumulus" in Old English. Until the 19th century Lew was a township in the parish of Bampton.[3] It became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1857, called Bampton Lew. The parish was united with Bampton in 1917,[4] and since 1976 has formed part of the benefice of Bampton with Clanfield.[5] Lew was made a separate civil parish in 1866.[6]
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity was designed in a 13th-century style by the architect William Wilkinson and built in 1841.
Sources
- Book: Blair, John . John Blair (historian) . 1994 . 1977 . Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire . Stroud . . 9-780750-901475.
- Book: Crossley . Alan . Currie . CRJ . Baggs . AP . Chance . Eleanor . Colvin . Christina . Day . CJ . Selwyn . Nesta . Townley . Simon C . 1996 . A History of the County of Oxford . 13: Bampton Hundred (Part One) . . London . . 978-0-19722-790-9 . 90–99 .
- Book: Ekwall, Eilert . Eilert Ekwall . 1936 . 1960 . Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names . 4th . Oxford . . 0198691033 .
- Book: Mills . AD . Room . D . 2003 . A Dictionary of British Place-Names . Oxford . . 0-19-852758-6 . Lew .
- Book: Sherwood . Jennifer . Pevsner . Nikolaus . Nikolaus Pevsner . . Oxfordshire . 1974 . . Harmondsworth . 0-14-071045-0 . 682–683 .
Notes and References
- Web site: Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District) . Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View . . 29 March 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110622111017/http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do;jsessionid=ac1f930b30d73ec370d62b6f4444bc01a4cf1c94ffa8?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790500&nsjs=true&nsck=true&nssvg=true&nswid=1020 . 22 June 2011 . dead . dmy-all.
- , cited in Crossley & Currie 1996, pp. 90–93
- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15912 Crossley & Currie 1996, pp. 6–8
- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15949 Crossley & Currie 1996, pp. 97–98
- Web site: A Church Near You . Bampton Lew Holy Trinity . . Archbishops' Council . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002104/http://www.achurchnearyou.com/activemap.php?B=27%2F031BX . 4 March 2016 . dead .
- Web site: unit history of Lew . https://archive.today/20121224091929/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10336211 . dead . 24 December 2012 . A Vision of Britain Through Time . . 2009 . 18 February 2012 .
